Stop for store-service apparatus



(No Model.)

E. P. OSGOOD.

STOP FOR STORESERVIGE APPARATUS. No. 354,805. Patented Dec. 21, 1.886;

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EDWIN P. OSGOOD, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOI FOR STORE-SERVICE APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,805, dated December21, 1886.

\ Application filed May '7, 1886. Serial No. 201,465. (No model.)

) To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, EDWIN P. OSGOOD, of Malden, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Stops for Store-Service Apparatus; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same. I

My invention relates to cash carriers or store-service systems; and itconsists of an improved stop mechanism for arresting the cars at the endof the way.

The obj ects sought in this invention are simplicity of construction,freedom from liability to derangement, and effectual operation in thegradual arresting of the car.

The invention consistsof a stop, a retainingflange mounted upon the wayso as to slide freely thereon, and limited by a cord or wire attached tosaid stop or retaining device; and in connection with this, it consistsof certain details of construction for suspending the stops and holdingthe wireways.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a side elevation of thetrack or way with a suspended stop and the catch of the carrier. Fig. 2is a perspective view of the series of ways for the devioe'for holdingor adjusting the suspended stops. Fig. 3 shows a detail construction.Fig. 4 shows in perspective a modified form of the suspending oradjusting device.

In the drawings, A represents a wire track on which the car orbundle-carrier runs.

Bis a stop or buffer placed upon the wire track surrounding and movingfreely on the same, which stop or buffer, as represented, consists of asleeve, 1), having a flange, a, with which the catch 0 engages. Themotion of the stop or buffer and the distance which it travels or movesuponthe wire track A is governed by a wire or cord, one end of which isattached to the stop or buffer B, and the other end of said wire or cordis attached to any desirable point, thus giving the stop a free and easymotion, besides gradually stopping and retaining the car at the end ofthe way.

In Fig. 1 the stop is represented as suspended from the ceiling, and inFig. 2 several are shown on a series of wires suspended from the bar D;but I do not wish to confine myself to these particular supports, asshown in Figs. 1 and 2, for one end of the wire or cord being connectedto the stop the other end may be connected to any desirable point withthe same effect. In Fig. 2 the bar D is supported on brackets E, whichare attached to squareheaded bolts F, connected to the mainsupporting-bar G, to which the several wires of the ways are attached.These square-headed bolts are made as shown in Fig. 3, and may beprovided with clamps, whereby they are firmly secured to the bar G.These bars may hold one or more of the brackets, as shown in Fig. 2. Thecarrier impinges against the stop and forces it back, and, as it isrestrained by the wire or cord d, the main-wire track A, being flexible,is raised slightly, and by this gradual yielding motion it arrests thecarrier gradully without a shock. The stop also reacts on the rebound ofthe carrier with a light yielding elastic motion.

In Fig. at is shown a modified form of the bracket or supporting device.This consists of a frame, K, having side bars and an end bar, 7 5 g, ora curved end, 9, formed by bending the bars that form the side piece.The frame K- is supported upon standards H, which are clamped bycross-pieces h by means of setscrews passing through sleeves, as shownin the figure. The wireways A are connected to the main bar G, which issuspended from the ceiling or any suitable support in the same manner asshown in Fig. 2. These stops on the wire A are suspended from the framein the same manner.

' I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, with a way of astoreservice apparatus, of a stop having'a retaining-flange surroundingthe wayand moving freely thereon, and a wire or cord connected to thesaid stop at one end and extending at right angles to the way to a fixedpoint of support, whereby the movement of the stop is limited by bindingupon the wire of the way, substantially as described.

2. In combination, a way or series of ways, a bracket or bracketssupported ona bar to which the way or ways areattached, stopssurrounding the wires of the ways, and suspend 10o ing wires or cordsconnected to the stops at In testimony whereof I have signed my name oneend and to the brackets at the other end, to this specification in thepresence of two sub- Whereby the movement of the stop is limitedscribing witnesses. by binding upon the wire of the way, substan- 5tially as described. E. P. OSGOOD.

3. In combination with the bar G and the wirewaysattaohed thereto, thesquare-headed Witnesses: bolt, and the bracket connected to the bolt,ROBERT B. SMITH, Jr., the said bolt being clamped to the bar G, sub- E.O. HOWARD.

1o stantiarlly as described.

